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ABC News Angry Voter Poll, April 1992 (ICPSR 9942)

Principal Investigator(s):ABC News

Summary:

In addition to providing an ongoing evaluation of the Bush
presidency and the 1992 presidential candidates and campaign, this
survey addressed areas of potential discontent among the nation's
voters. Respondents were asked to describe their feelings about the
way the federal government worked, to express their approval of term
limits for members of Congress and to indicate whether they agreed
with a series of statements such as "It won't really make much of a
differe... (more info)

In addition to providing an ongoing evaluation of the Bush
presidency and the 1992 presidential candidates and campaign, this
survey addressed areas of potential discontent among the nation's
voters. Respondents were asked to describe their feelings about the
way the federal government worked, to express their approval of term
limits for members of Congress and to indicate whether they agreed
with a series of statements such as "It won't really make much of a
difference who's elected this year," and "People like me don't have
any say about what government does." Respondents also rated their
level of confidence in the ability of government to solve problems
and indicated whether their confidence level reflected the difficulty
of the problems or the incompetency of the government. Respondents
were also asked whether the elected leaders in Washington were really
interested in solving the nation's biggest problems, whether the
overall level of ethics and honesty in politics had fallen during the
past ten years, and whether they thought that government was run by a
few big interests looking out for themselves. In addition,
respondents were queried on whether they thought that the current
system of government needed drastic changes, or that the system
itself was good but the people in government were not doing their
jobs well enough. Background information on respondents includes
political alignment, voter registration status, education, age,
Hispanic origin, race, and sex.

Universe:
Adults aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the 48 contiguous United States.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

A weight variable with three implied decimal places
has been included and must be used with any analysis.

Methodology

Sample:
Households were selected by random digit dialing. Within
households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the
household who last had a birthday and who was at home at the time of
the interview.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1993-05-13

Version History:

2007-04-02 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have
been added to this data collection.